working lands preservation: tools and incentives
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Working Lands Preservation: Tools and Incentives. Gerry Cohn Southeast Regional Office Graham, NC. American Farmland Trust. National non-profit organization, founded in 1980. 50,000 members nationwide Protecting working lands, planning for agriculture, and keeping the land healthy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Working Lands Preservation: Tools and Incentives
Gerry CohnSoutheast Regional Office
Graham, NC
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American Farmland Trust
• National non-profit organization, founded in 1980. 50,000 members nationwide
• Protecting working lands, planning for agriculture, and keeping the land healthy
• Education, policy advocacy, and land projects
• Farm Bill
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Principles for improving working land conservation
• Increased coordination and simplification of local, state, and national working lands conservation programs will make them more “customer friendly” and effective
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Principles for improving working land conservation
• Elected officials and government agencies must do a better job of building public support for working lands conservation if the programs are to be improved and expanded
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Principles for improving working lands conservation
• Government supported working lands conservation programs should demonstrate they produce valuable and measurable “environmental goods” or “conservation commodities.”
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Principles for improving working lands conservation
• Producing more benefits from working lands conservation will require significantly greater funding.
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LOCALMaking the Case for Agriculture
Economic Natural resource protection Wildlife habitat Rural heritage Fiscal
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LOCAL
Planning for Agriculture:
• Land use policies
• Economic development programs
FARMING IS A BUSINESS!!
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Land Use Policy: Comprehensive Plans
• Agriculture’s role in the county
• Existing and planned water and sewer
• Locating public facilities: schools, industrial parks
• Setbacks and regulations for farm-based businesses
• Outreach to the farming community
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• Planning for ag viability
• Individual business and estate plans
• Creating alternative products and markets
• Agri-tourism/local promotion
• PACE programs
Agricultural Economic Development
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• Broad based partnership
• Active participation in Comp Plan Update
• Cotton Mill Farmers Market
• Farmers Fresh Food Network
• SPLOST referendum (3M for farmland)
• Georgia Agricultural Land Trust
Carroll County
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New York Watershed Agricultural Program
• Developed as an alternative to a costly EPA-mandated filtration system
• Administered by the non-profit Watershed Agricultural Council
• Includes both financial incentives to implement best management practices as well as the purchase of agricultural conservation easements
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REGIONAL
What’s Happening
Around the Southeast
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Kentucky
Statewide PACE – 15M Fayette County PDR – 15M Agricultural Development Fund Soil Erosion and Water Quality Cost-Share
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Virginia
• State Office of Farmland Preservation
• Model PDR program guidelines
• Ag Enterprise Districts: cost-share
• Local Ag Economic Development Coordinators
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North Carolina
• Voluntary Agricultural Districts
• NC Farm Transition Network
• Working Lands and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund
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NATIONAL
• Farmland Protection
• Farm Bill
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NATIONAL
Farmland Protection• Local PACE: 55 programs, 763M, 2200 farms• State PACE: 27 programs, 2B, 8750 farms• Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP)• Conservation Easement Tax Law: Landowner deduction
increase from 30 to 50% of income (100% for farmers); can be spread over 16 years
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Sample State PACE Program Activity (2006)
State Acres Easements $ Spent (M)
Pennsylvania 318,350 2,783 513.5
Colorado 244,584 160 88.3
Vermont 113,000 389 45.0
California 32,727 100 44.2
Delaware 79,955 442 88.7
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New market development Energy Research, pest management, etc. Rural development Stewardship
NATIONAL:Farm Bill Reform:
Unmet Needs of Agriculture
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A New Framework forU.S. Farm Policy
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Four Major Policy Proposals
Green Payments Revenue Protection Program Cooperative Conservation Program Farm and Ranch Profitability Grants
AFT’s Agenda 2007
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• Gerry Cohn: 336-221-0707
• Technical info: 800-370-4879
• http://www.farmland.org